Checkpoints ｔo Install rdiff-backup

Checkpoints to install rdiff-backup (in Linux)

in case you are stuck in ...

1) check python-devel package installation
2) check librsync library dependency
3) check librsync library compile option. You may need to re-comile it with -fPIC option

see. http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki

below, summay of operations (in my environment: Fedora Core 5, x86_64)
(this post is English version of my original blog in Japanese )

# rpm -aq | grep python-devel
# yum install python-devel

# rpm -aq | grep librsync
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/librsync/librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz?modtime=1097439809&big_mirror=0
# tar zxf librsync-0.9.7.tar.gz
# cd librsync-0.9.7
# ./configure
# make AM_CFLAGS=-fPIC
# make install
# ldconfig
# cd ..

# wget http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-1.2.5.tar.gz
# tar zxf rdiff-backup-1.2.5.tar.gz
# cd rdiff-backup-1.2.5
# python setup.py install